News of years

'Total failure': The war on terror 20 years on

26-08-2021 13:57 The Al-Qaeda plane hijackings of September 11, 2001 were the first foreign attack on the US mainland in nearly two centuries. It ruptured America's sense of safety and plunged the West into war in Afghanistan – a military operation that is only now just concluding.

COMMUNITY

Descendants of Welsh settlers mark 156 years in Patagonia

27-07-2021 22:14 In Gaiman, descendants of the first Welsh setters in Patagonia prepare to celebrate 156 years since the arrival of their ancestors on the shores of the Golfo Nuevo.

church sex abuse

Priest sentenced to 12 years in jail for three counts of sexual abuse

13-07-2021 16:43 Rubén Agustín Rosa Torino, 67, sentenced to 12 years in prison by a Salta court for three counts of sexual abuse against victims following a six-week trial.

CCP CENTENARY

Xi hails 'irreversible' rise of China at 100th birthday of Communist Party

01-07-2021 11:28 In the summer of 1921 Mao and a clutch of Marxist-Leninist thinkers in Shanghai founded the Communist Party, which has since morphed into one of the world's most powerful political organisations. It now counts around 95 million members, garnered over a century of war, famine and turmoil, and more recently a surge to superpower status butting up against Western rivals, led by the United States.

ARGENTINA ABLAZE

Government eyes bill to limit commercial use of fire-destroyed land

04-10-2020 23:07 Frente de Todos proposes bill that would prevent agricultural and real-estate firms from benefitting from destruction and clearance of land devastated by fire.

75 YEARS OF UNITED NATIONS

Born to prevent war, UN at 75 faces a deeply polarised world

21-09-2020 23:44 “We have a surplus of multilateral challenges and a deficit of multilateral solutions,” declares António Guterres, as UN secretary general leads celebrations marking organisation's 75th anniversary.

Human rights

Survivors mark 25th anniversary of Srebrenica massacre

11-07-2020 06:46 Bosnians commemorate 25 years since more than 8,000 Bosnian Muslims perished in 10 days of slaughter, after Srebrenica was overrun by Bosnian Serb forces during the closing months of the country's 1992-1995 fratricidal war.

Price increases

Inflation in February came in at 2%, the lowest in two years

12-03-2020 17:16 Prices increases slow to slowest in the last two years, according to INDEC. Inflation in last 12 months now totals 50.3%.

SAME-SEX MARRIAGE

30 years on from 1st same-sex unions in Denmark, gay marriage more accepted

01-10-2019 14:22 Ivan Larsen and Ove Carlsen had their civil union three decades ago. Same-sex marriage is today allowed in 28 countries across the world, including Argentina, even though homosexuality remains illegal in some parts of the world.